Category: Migration

A narrower concept of “East Central Europe” remains the dominant one in the German-speaking countries. By Dr. Joachim von Puttkamer / 11.11.2015 Professor of Eastern European History Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies Introduction “Central and Eastern Europe” or “East Central Europe” in its usual sense encompasses the countries of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and[…]

This image shows the machine works of Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz, Germany. Hartmann was one of the most successful entrepreneurs and largest employers in the Kingdom of Saxony. / Hinweise zur lizenzgerechten Weiterverwendung des Bildes, Wikimedia Commons The greater portion of mobility occurred within or between regions as people relocated their labor, material wealth, and cultural notions. By Leslie Page[…]

Hutterite family 1588 Anabaptists constituted one of the most persecuted and most mobile religious populations of the Reformation and Confessional Ages. By Dr. Geoffrey Dipple / 07.15.2015 Professor of Early Modern History University of Alberta Abstract Lacking a durable alliance with the state anywhere in Europe, Anabaptists constituted one of the most persecuted and most[…]

July 1944: A refugee trek of so-called Black Sea Germans in Hungary fleeing westward from the Red Army. The inhabitants of former German settlements in Southern Russia north of the Black Sea from Odessa in the West to the North Caucasus in the East are called Black Sea Germans. German settlers founded these settlements in[…]

A 16th century chart of Europe and North Africa. Luis Texieira, Portolan Chart, Lisbon, ca. 1600 via Wikimedia Commons Migration is central to Mediterranean history and people have always moved between its two shores. By Dr. Felicita Tramontana / 06.26.2018 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow University of Warwick The appointment of Matteo Salvini, leader of the[…]

Harbour, Pilot’s Tower and Paddle Steamers 1852. / Dover Museum Nativism caused much splintering in the political landscape, and the Republicans benefited and rode to victory in the divisive election of 1860. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 07.30.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the[…]

Image via learnerlog.org, Creative Commons Out of Africa and gradually stretching around the globe. By Emma Groeneveld / 05.15.2017 Historian Disregarding the extremely inhospitable spots even the most stubborn of us have enough common sense to avoid, humans have managed to cover an extraordinary amount of territory on this earth. Go back 200,000 years, however,[…]

Migrants are escorted through fields by police as they are walked from the village of Rigonce to Brezice refugee camp on October 23, 2015 in Rigonce, Slovenia. Thousands of migrants marched across the border between Croatia into Slovenia as authorities intensify their efforts to attempt to cope with Europe’s largest migration of people since World[…]